Delivery of Health Care - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Careful planning of the decision-making process in neonatology: ethical orientation]

12 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Many decisions in neonatology are complex and demanding. Consequently, the involved persons can expect guidance which is provided to them by specialist organisations of the scientific community. Their documents deal with such substantial ... Read more...

[Should modern medicine become a service industry? An ethical appraisal of a market-oriented medicine]

30 Jul 2009 Currently, modern medicine is undergoing fundamental transformation. Care for the patient has transformed into a client service delivery where patients are perceived as customers. It's not just simple semantics. Rather, such changes reflect a ... Read more...

[Ethics and health economics - a challenging relationship]

30 Jul 2009 Ethics and health economics are often seen as contradictory. Based on new obligations imposed by the Federal Department of Home Affairs demanding ethics and health economics to be both embedded in the medical curriculum we challenge the relationship ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Delivery of Health Care - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mission leadership: kicking it up a notch. New competency model positions the mission leader as an indispensable contributor to an organization's identity, strategy and vision. 30 Aug 2009
• [Careful planning of the decision-making process in neonatology: ethical orientation] 12 Aug 2009
• [Ethics in medical every day practice: why and how?] 30 Jul 2009
• [Should modern medicine become a service industry? An ethical appraisal of a market-oriented medicine] 30 Jul 2009
• [Ethics and health economics - a challenging relationship] 30 Jul 2009
• [Ethical problems in organ transplantation] 30 Jul 2009
• [Palliative care - difficult decisions at the end of life] 30 Jul 2009
• [Compulsory hospital admission - coercive measures in medical care] 30 Jul 2009
• [The rights of family members to make medical decisions for their incapacitated relatives] 30 Jul 2009
• [The living will - a helpful tool for communication and decision-making regarding death and dying] 30 Jul 2009
• [Do ethical guidelines provide assistance in clinical practice?] 30 Jul 2009
• [Decision-making relating to cardio-pulmonary resuscitation attempts] 30 Jul 2009
• [Basic concepts in biomedical ethics] 30 Jul 2009
• Implementing guidance and guidelines for developing and delivering equitable child and adolescent mental health services. 29 Jun 2009
• Exploring the harmful effects of health care. 29 Jun 2009
• A piece of my mind. "Minutes from fishing and the opera". 22 Jun 2009
• The silent dimension: expressing humanism in each medical encounter. 20 Jun 2009
• Greed and fame. 30 May 2009
• Democracy: the forgotten challenge for bioethics in the developing countries. 20 May 2009
• [Civilization stress, cardiovascular risk, evidence-based medicine, guidelines] 8 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Delivery of Health Care'

Definition: The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.

Descriptor UI: D003695

Alternative terms: Delivery of Health Care; Healthcare Delivery; Deliveries, Healthcare; Delivery, Healthcare; Delivery of Healthcare; Healthcare Deliveries; Health Care Delivery; Delivery, Health Care; Contraceptive Distribution; Contraceptive Distributions; Distribution, Contraceptive; Distributions, Contraceptive; Nonclinical Distribution; Distribution, Nonclinical; Distributions, Nonclinical; Nonclinical Distributions; Distribution, Non-Clinical; Distribution, Non Clinical; Distributions, Non-Clinical; Non-Clinical Distributions; Non-Clinical Distribution; Non Clinical Distribution; Distributional Activities; Activities, Distributional; Activity, Distributional; Distributional Activity; Health Care; Care, Health; Healthcare; Health Care Systems; Health Care System; System, Health Care; Systems, Health Care; Healthcare Systems; Healthcare System; System, Healthcare; Systems, Healthcare; Community-Based Distribution; Community Based Distribution; Community-Based Distributions; Distribution, Community-Based; Distributions, Community-Based; Delivery of Dental Care; Dental Care Delivery; Delivery, Dental Care;

Related Mesh Headings: Consumer Participation;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374; N05.300;

History Note: 71

Technical Notes: Public Law 91-515